Kela language

Kela language

Infobox Language
name=Kela
states=Papua New Guinea
region=Huon Gulf, Morobe Province
speakers=2,420 (1997)
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
fam3=Central-Eastern MP
fam4=Eastern MP
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Western Oceanic
fam7=North New Guinea
fam8=Huon Gulf
fam9=North Huon Gulf
script=
iso2=
iso3=kcl

Kela is an Austronesian language spoken by about 2500 people (in 1997) in several villages along the south coast of the Huon Gulf between Salamaua Peninsula and the Paiawa River, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. The principal villages are Keila/Kêla, Logui/Laugwêc, Laukanu, Lababia, Buso, and Kui. Linguistically, Kela belongs to the North Huon Gulf languages and Kela-speakers appear to have arrived on the southern coast of the Gulf relatively recently, beginning perhaps as late as the 1600s (Bradshaw 1997).

Morphology

Names

Like most of the languages around the Huon Gulf, Kela has a system of birth-order names (Holzknecht 1989: 43-45). The seventh son is called "No Name": "se-mba" 'name-none'. Compare Numbami.

External links

*ethnologue|code=kcl

References

* Bradshaw, Joel (1997). "The population kaleidoscope: Another factor in the Melanesian diversity v. Polynesian homogeneity debate." "Journal of the Polynesian Society" 106: 222-249.
* Holzknecht, Susanne (1989). "The Markham languages of Papua New Guinea." Series C-115. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
* Johnson, Morris (1994). Kela organised phonology data. [http://www.sil.org/pacific/png/pubs/0000164/Kela.pdf]


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